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Anthony Pilkington

Biography

Winger Anthony Pilkington
signed for Norwich from Huddersfield on 6th July 2011 for an undisclosed
fee rumoured to be around £2million, with the Canaries seeing
off interest from Wolves and Stoke.

Born in Blackburn,
Pilkington spent time with the youth systems of Preston North
End, Manchester United and home town club Blackburn Rovers. Pilkington
joined Stockport County on 15th December 2006, from Atherton Collieries,
where he made his name scoring a hat-trick against F.C. United
of Manchester and signed initially on a short term contract at
Edgeley Park. Pilkington then played a big part in County's record
breaking run of results during January and February 2007. Pilkington
continued to help Stockport's push for the playoffs by scoring
a further two goals in a season which saw County miss out on the
play-offs only on goal-difference

On 23rd January 2009,
he was signed by fellow League One side Huddersfield Town on a
three-and-a-half-year contract. He had made 80 appearances for
County, scoring 17 times. He made his Terriers debut in the 10
defeat by Yeovil Town at Huish Park on 27th January 2009

On 30th June 2011,
the club announced that Pilkington had declared his intention
to leave following their failure to win promotion from League
One. He had made 92 appearances for Huddersfield, scoring 19 goals.

Anthony has one Under-21
cap for the Republic of Ireland.

Pilkingon's brother
Danny is a professional footballer who was with Stockport. Other
brother Karl is a TV and radio personality who has worked with
Ricky Gervais and had his own TV show "An Idiot Abroad"

Pilkington made his Norwich debut as a 75th minute substitute
in the opening day of the season clash at Wigan (13th August 2011)
which Norwich drew 1-1. His first start came the following week
(21st August) in the 1-1 home draw with Stoke. He
scored his first Norwich goal in the 2-1 away win at Bolton on
17th September 2011 (City's first Premier League away win since
1994)

Impressive form in Norwich's opening start to the 2011/12 premier
League season saw Pilkington linked with a call-up to the Irish
squad, with Irish coach Marco Tardelli revealing that that Norwich
City trio Wes Hoolahan, Anthony Pilkington and Marc Tierney are
firmly on his international radar ahead of the Euro 2012 finals.
The former World Cup winner, who was at Carrow Road to see the
Canaries take on Arsenal, admitted he and Ireland manager Giovanni
Trapattoni were weighing up all their options with regards to
their final 23-man Euro2012 squad. Press speculation also linked
him with a £5million move to Liverpool.

Pilkington finished the 2011/12 season with 32 appearances and
eight goals as Norwich finished 12th in the Premier League

Pilkington was called up to the Irish squad in January 2013.

At the end of April 2013, he was linked with a multi-million
pound switch to Stoke.

Pilkington made his Irish debut on 6th September 2013, coming
on as a substitute in a 2-1 defeat to Sweden in a World Cup qualifier.
Norwich teammate Johan Elmander scored
one of the Swedish goals.

In late January 2014, Pilkington was reportedly the subject of
a £3million bid from Swansea City.

He made 17 appearances, scoring twice in the 2013/14 season in
which Norwich were relegated from the Premier League.

Pilkington moved to Cardiff City for a fee rumoured to be between
£1.25m and £2m on 14th August 2014, following suggestions
of a falling out with manager Neil Adams.

In January 2016, he was linked with a move to Blackburn Rovers now managed by Paul Lambert.